Maybe aliens are better than pagans? It is hard to predict what bigots will have problems with.
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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Jars - Dec 21, 2010 11:26:15 am PST #12537 of 30000
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 11:34:06 am PST #12538 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're not bigots. They're patriots. Space alien-worshipping patriots.
le nubian - Dec 21, 2010 12:47:49 pm PST #12539 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
This is like bigotry week (although truth be told, the bigots seemed to have lost their ever-loving mind when Obama was elected) in the US. First, Haley Barbour now this mess.
But...I did not know the "gods" were aliens in Thor. Really? WTF have I been?
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 12:55:43 pm PST #12540 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They mention it's science in the trailer.
DavidS - Dec 21, 2010 1:09:36 pm PST #12541 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Dec 21, 2010 1:34:30 pm PST #12542 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pure cinematic charisma: Romy Schneider's screen tests for Clouzot's unfinished L'Enfer.
I don't know another actress that has quite Romy's mix of beauty, warmth, wickedness, sensuality and play. But I'd like to see Cate Blanchett try.
I know I've mentioned it before, but Romy's on my short list of great under-appreciated beauties of the sixties along with Capucine and Charlotte Rampling. (All three of them having more than a whiff of decadence, I'd say.)
Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2010 1:37:38 pm PST #12543 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
So Thor and Odin and Baldur and Loki and the Giants are all aliens? Is this from an iteration of the comics, or original to the movie?
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 1:38:44 pm PST #12544 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is this from an iteration of the comics, or original to the movie?
Apparently they did it in the comics too. Where they also had an Asian Asgard, but nobody's whining about that too loudly.
chrismg - Dec 21, 2010 3:12:29 pm PST #12545 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Remember, the Marvel Asgardians are one of Kirby's early versions of what would become the DC New Gods, who are explicitly Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
Jon B. - Dec 22, 2010 1:34:23 pm PST #12546 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I forgot how awesome Blake Edwards' Honorary Oscar acceptance was.
Is there an app that can excise Jim Carrey from that clip?